VIPRE Cloud vs. Webroot SecureAnywhere

“VIPRE has one of the cleanest interfaces we have seen in years…. It is minimalistic yet completely functional, a nearly perfect design.”

“Quite frankly, the Webroot policy deployment is a bit of a mess…. VIPRE breaks down policy types into well-defined categories. Instead of a confusing multi-color scheme, the box is either filled in for active, or left hollow and open if disabled. This makes selecting the appropriate action, to quarantine, delete, report or ignore, very easy to set and audit.”

“The VIPRE program’s agents are self-contained executable files, and unlike the Webroot agents, smartly contain all the keys and information needed so that users just need to click and run it.”

“Overall, we feel that VIPRE Endpoint Security-Cloud Edition is very well suited to the SMB market as a whole. We also regard it as particularly well suited to small businesses with limited IT support resources, as the very clear and simple design would make it easy for even inexperienced admins to get to grips with.”

“We note that the [Webroot] console does not adapt to mobile devices, meaning that a degree of patience would be required to use it on a smartphone or tablet.”

“The [Webroot] admin runs the installer file and accepts Windows’ User Account Control prompt, as normal, but there is no wizard to complete, or indeed any other obvious indication that the program is being installed.”

VIPRE Cloud vs. Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud

“TWB brought in three users with average computer experience, who were not experts in cybersecurity or cloud. We asked them to try and set up the VIPRE program. Two of them could begin setting up policies and deploying agents with no further help needed. The third person eventually made their way to the help site and read some of the materials there, before returning and completing setup. When questioned why he went to the help site, he said that he thought he was doing everything correctly, but wanted to check to make sure. Incidentally, only one user of the three could complete the Symantec setup, even using the help features included there.”

“None of our inexperienced testers had trouble getting started with the VIPRE program. It would almost be impossible to get lost at this phase. However, with Symantec, only one tester could find the link to begin setting up the program within one minute. The other two scrolled down to look at the blank dashboard and were lost for a very long time.”

“There were also noticeable loading times when using the Symantec dashboard, sometimes as much as three seconds when switching tabs, making it look unoptimized, and annoying our test group. By comparison, all users in the test group took to the VIPRE dashboard immediately. They were impressed with the fact that every single element in the dashboard was interactive, allowing them to drill down into lower levels to get more information about threats.”

“Every user breezed through the VIPRE mobile interface with no problems and no training needed. All said they would feel comfortable managing their devices using the mobile interface. All of them also agreed that having the mobile interface would allow them to monitor their SMB while they were away from their offices. They ranked this feature extremely high in terms of desirability in a product like this, and clearly favored the VIPRE mobile version over Symantec’s offering.”

“VIPRE not only tested far higher than Symantec, but was near the top of the entire pack. In fact, when both the extremely high detection rate and the low false positives are considered, VIPRE did better in terms of performance than almost any other competitor.”